Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther still woke up very early the next day. Her biological clock was very stable when she was in Tingen. Now even without the personal pocket watch, she could guess the approximate time. It was not yet seven o'clock.

She stretched out and when she got up from the bed, she saw those skylarks squatting outside the window. They seemed to recognize her, and as soon as they saw her standing on the ground, they immediately let out a sweet and melodious chirp.

Esther smiled knowingly, took out the remaining sandwiches from last night, opened the whole window, broke some bread crumbs again and sprinkled them on the window edge. The birds swayed their tails happily under her gaze. Jumping around to pick up food.

Esther yawned and went to the bathroom to wash up.

A black shadow flew down from the roof next door. Relying on its size, which was slightly larger than that of a skylark, it used its wings to fly away two small skylarks. Amidst the angry insults from several skylarks, the crow swallowed a few bites of the largest piece of bread covered in scrambled eggs, then kicked off the window sill and flew back to the north of Backlund.

When Esther came back, a few larks were still chirping and waving their wings. She took out the sandwich again in a daze, broke some bread crumbs to appease the birds, and then stuffed the rest into her mouth.

Why do they look so angry?

This was just a brief morning episode and would not affect Esther's life. There was still a lot of time before she went to work at Teana Cafe. After seeing Mrs. Romano carrying a pot of fertilizer downstairs, Esther was moved. Sette took the initiative to ask if she needed help.

"So free? Have you found a job? Don't imitate that bastard Calvin who idles around all day." Mrs. Romano said this, but she put the fertilizer in Esther's hand unceremoniously. .

"It will take a while for my work to come over. The Teana Cafe on the corner of the street doesn't have many customers in the morning."

"Oh? It's surprising that someone so stingy as Martha would hire new employees."

Mrs. Romano took Esther to the door and instructed her to water the square flower bed with a watering can. When watering the surface soil, she should also sprinkle enough water on the leaves. The air pollution in Backlund caused the flowers and leaves of the plants to also be watered. Frequent shedding of dust.

"It's okay. I can see that you are a meticulous guy, much better than Richie. He broke three of my flowerpots before, can you imagine? Three of them! I never let him get close to mine again. children."

Not long after, Norn also walked out of the apartment, carrying his old and huge backpack, and greeted the two of them: "Good morning, Mrs. Romano, Luna."

"Good morning, Norn."

Noen walked to Esther and looked at the straight sunflower: "How can I put it? The sunflower is really suitable for you."

"Really? I wonder what flower Norn likes?"

Noen smiled slightly and pointed to the low pot of red geraniums next to the sunflowers: "When I was a child, it was the one that hung most often at the door of my house. My mother once told me that its flower language is 'Happiness is with you. around'. Before what happened to them, I had a flower shop in my house."

Esther stopped watering the flowers with her hands and looked sad: "I'm sorry..."

"No, no, I talk too much. I have to leave quickly." Noen waved his hand and said goodbye to the two people. "The subway will be more crowded if it is later."

"See you later. Hope you have a nice day!"

Noen smiled bitterly: "As long as the children don't ask too many weird questions."

It wasn't until Noon was out of sight that Mrs. Romano cleared her throat: "Well, I didn't know Noon could be so glib."

"Glib? No, right?" Esther continued watering the flowers in confusion.

"Young man, don't underestimate the observation ability of the elderly! Although Norn is not a bad boy, I don't recommend that you get too close to him."

Esther's movements froze, recalling the crazy look she saw through the crack of the door that day: "I know, but it's better to have a harmonious relationship between neighbors than to fight every day."

Even if it's just false harmony.

When Esther was standing by the flower bed and listening to Mrs. Romano explain the regular flowering period of her "children", a man wrapped in a brown windbreaker came out. He glanced at the two of them coldly and said nothing. Fadi left quickly. The sharp hawk-like eyes under the man's mask made Esther frown. It seemed that this was the legendary gentleman who lived in 501.

It's really fierce.

A few minutes later, Agnes and Josephine also came out. Agnes changed into warm orange lipstick and bright gold eye shadow today, and she looked radiant. Dozens of minutes after the two girls heading to Backlund University Campus left, Richie also ran out of the house in a panic.

"Damn, I almost forgot that I have morning classes today! Bye, ladies!"

Richie didn't even wait for a response from Mrs. Romano and Esther, and rushed towards the street to the subway station.

Esther estimated the time, said goodbye to Mrs. Romano, and headed to Teana Cafe.

A few minutes later, Calvin stretched himself out of the apartment door. When he passed by Mrs. Romano, he was suddenly stopped by her: "Gavin, what are you looking at?"

Calvin's expression was hidden behind his sunglasses. He stopped and stood next to the sunflower: "Of course I am looking at the flowers. Flowers are also art created by nature. Since there is beauty worthy of my appreciation, I Naturally, I will linger over it.”

"You've been looking at the flowers at the window for so long, why don't you come down and look at them?"

Galvin was silent for a few seconds and shook his head: "It's hard to see clearly if it's too close, madam. But why is this sunflower so tall? It looks out of place."

Mrs. Romano sat by the flower bed, spinning the Holy Emblem of Life of Mother Earth in her hand, and laughed out loud: "Flowers are flowers, there is no need to blend in with anything."

"I see, I've learned a lesson."

Without saying goodbye, Calvin quickly left the apartment and headed towards the subway station.

Mrs. Romano looked at Galvin's back and stretched out her hand to thump her waist and arms: "Oh, old people are dying. Fortunately, there is little Luna. If I had known that this apartment would welcome so many young people with different talents, I would You should understand that this is a bad job..."

The peaceful and ordinary life of Lily of the Valley Street continues.

When Sherlock Moriarty gradually established his reputation as a "private detective" at No. 15 Minsk Street and was frequently in danger, Luna Duboa, the "pianist" at No. 29 Lily of the Valley Street, also Enter the curious sight of the residents here.

Esther was very happy to have a peaceful life for two weeks. Compared to the Nighthawks who worry about life issues all the time, she preferred the daily life of Lily of the Valley Street that was close to ordinary people.

However, there are also people who take pleasure in group activities, such as Rich.

"Open air concert?"

After Esther repeated this word, Candela's expression on the chair next to her suddenly turned gloomy: "It's not that exaggerated, I just played something casually for entertainment. But the last 'concert' was disastrous."

Richie slapped the table, then rubbed his sore palms on his trouser legs: "This time will definitely be different! You don't know, Noen wrote a piece of music, and it's really good to hear him hum it! We can press Play with this!”

"But I don't know what instrument I can play. The piano may not be convenient."

Candela shrugged: "You can shake my maracas, I'd love to. Agnes plays the harmonica, Josephine has a triangle, and Richie plays the accordion."

Richie slapped his thigh hard this time: "That's right! Let Norn be the conductor!"

Candela raised a hand, "Stop it! First of all, Norn doesn't know how to command, and secondly, none of us can understand the command gestures. Can you use your brain?"

"So Gal won't participate?" Esther asked.

The corners of Candela's mouth twitched: "Letting him participate was the biggest disaster last time."

Richie laughed even more wildly. He kept laughing for a long time before he stopped: "What's interesting is that Gal, who always talks about 'loving art', is a tone-deaf man. He brought a violin at the time and played it after Even the pigeons in the square were so scared that all the pigeons ran away."

Esther also laughed: "How could this be? Seeing that he often comes to the cafe to listen to me playing the piano, I thought he was a music fanatic."

"He is a dissolute playboy, everyone here knows it." Candela said disdainfully.

"Okay, don't speak ill of our Mr. Sunglasses behind his back, he will be sad if he hears it."

Candela held her forehead with her hands and said helplessly: "You should know that his 'sadness' is all exaggeration, right?"

Richie scratched his hair in embarrassment: "Really? But he does look sad."

Candela looked at Esther: "Luna, you can come over and take a look. I think you won't cause trouble in Gal. But don't take what that guy said to heart. As far as Rich knows, Gal doesn't have any girlfriends." More than two weeks."

Esther nodded vigorously: "I understand, I will be careful."

Then Candela pointed to Rich: "As long as you're not such a fool, you have nothing to worry about."

Richie blushed in embarrassment, but he still smiled and was not at all self-conscious about being called "idiot".

"The time has been set for this Sunday afternoon. It's only Tuesday today and we still have time to practice." Richie suddenly rummaged through his briefcase and took out three pieces of music written by novices. The backup was distributed to the participating members, "This is the song written by Norn. I will be responsible for the main melody and Agnes's harmonica will accompany it. Can you understand it?"

"no problem."

During this time, Esther also bought some music books at a nearby bookstore and played many popular local melodies, which won unanimous praise from customers. With the analytical skills of a "decryption scholar", she quickly mastered the slightly different seven-line notation of this world, and learning new music was a piece of cake.

Esther took the paper from Richie's hand and just looked at it, the expression on her face gradually becoming empty.

Richie seemed to like this piece of music very much. He hummed a short excerpt, and then looked at Candela with great interest: "How is it? Is it very good?"

"Wouldn't it be too sad to go to Fountain Square and play a piece like this?"

Richie shook his head vigorously: "How is that possible! As long as we play well enough, the problem of melancholy tunes is nothing at all! And it's rare that Norn specially wrote such a song. I really want to try it."

Kandra sighed: "Oh, it's up to you. Luna, don't you have to go to work on Sunday?"

After a moment of silence, Esther squeezed the music sheet tightly, which made Richie nervous and wanted to grab the paper back, until Esther showed a very shallow smile: "I will ask for leave, of course I will go to the square to participate in your meeting Concert. I’ll ask Martha to give me some time off, and then I’ll go back to the store to work overtime after the concert.”

"That's great! You must come and support me!" Richie said with a smile.

Esther returned the score to Richie: "Does Norn have a name for this piece?"

"No, he never thought about it."

"I have a good suggestion." Esther stood up from the chair. She needed to go back to the room to calm down. "Can you tell him for me? 'Birch Forest'."

Because this is its original name.

*This is the Russian version of Bai Hualin's "Берёзы", not Pu Shu's version. Although that version is also very nice, it is his original version and not a Russian cover.